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This Land Is Your Land
The American folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" on 23 February 1940, in his room at the Hanover House hotel on 43rd Street in New York. He wrote it in critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America": tired of hearing Kate Smith sing that song on the radio in the late 1930s, he first called his own, sarcastically, "God Blessed America for Me".
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). This Land Is Your Land. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/this-land-is-your-land
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